Social media is losing its mind after Kim Kardashian posted a 30-second video of her doing an advertisement for a plant-based food company called Beyond Meat in which she never actually appears to eat any of the food she encourages others to buy.
The 41-year-old reality star shared the ad on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd8SzfJrwUq/">Instagram</a> Tuesday for the vegan company (she&#8217;s been named as its Chief Taste Consultant). In the video, the reality star shows off the variety of food items, combined with close-up shots of the food and her chewing. However, eagle-eyed fans noticed there did not appear to be a moment where the Kardashian actually takes a bit of the food and eats it.
She captioned her post, &#8220;I&#8217;m so inspired by @beyondmeat&#8217;s mission and excited to share their delicious plant-based products with all of you as their Chief Taste Consultant.&#8221;
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The clip, which can be seen above, opens with a shot of a covered silver platter being placed in front of the &#8220;Keeping Up With The Kardashians&#8221; star, showing off a burger and fries. The reality star is then shown holding a burger that&#8217;s been cut in half as she throws her head back appearing to be chewing and enjoying something.
We then see a close-up shot of a meatball on a fork as she holds it up but never takes a bite. This happened several more times, with Kim either above food or holding food up to her mouth, but again never actually taking a bite and allowing the audience to see her eating the food.
And it is fair to say social media noticed, with a stream of comments on the Instagram post mocking her for not eating the product, saying that they won’t be purchasing it if she isn&#8217;t actually consuming it, and more, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/05/25/kim-kardashian-mocked-for-not-eating-food-in-beyond-meat-ad/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_source=P6Twitter">reported</a> Page Six.
&#8220;She didn&#8217;t even take a bite of the burger,&#8221; one person commented, while another wrote, &#8220;The hamburger wasn&#8217;t bitten.&#8221;
&#8220;You didn&#8217;t show her actually consuming the product… Did she actually eat it?&#8221; another shared.
&#8220;I ain&#8217;t buying it cause you ain&#8217;t really eating it,&#8221; a person wrote with a laughing emoji.
The jokes kept coming with comments like, &#8220;Fake eating… I see you,&#8221; &#8220;You didn’t even eat the food,&#8221; and &#8220;This is beyoooond meat, so good you don&#8217;t even have to eat it.&#8221;
&#8220;She didn&#8217;t even eat the product! This is hilarious,&#8221; another shared.
The reality star has yet to respond to the comments.

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) lashed out at billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk for saying that he enjoyed chocolate milk, telling him that supporting the dairy industry was not good for the climate and was just as bad as driving a &#8220;gas-guzzler.&#8221;
The exchange began with a tweet from Musk simply stating that he had enjoyed drinking some chocolate milk. &#8220;Chocolate milk is insanely good. Just had some,&#8221; he tweeted.
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Chocolate milk is insanely good. Just had some.
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&#8220;Drinking cow’s milk is like driving a gas guzzler. The dairy industry is one of the worst contributors to the climate catastrophe. What happened to caring about the environment? Now chocolate oat milk we can get behind,&#8221; the official PETA Twitter account responded.
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Drinking cow’s milk is like driving a gas guzzler. The dairy industry is one of the worst contributors to the climate catastrophe. What happened to caring about the environment?
Now chocolate oat milk we can get behind 😋 <a href="https://t.co/9XOUFmRb0R">https://t.co/9XOUFmRb0R</a>
&mdash; PETA (@peta) <a href="https://twitter.com/peta/status/1523818989876441088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
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PETA also <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/oscar-nominee-superglued-himself-to-starbucks-counter-because-they-charged-him-extra-for-plant-based-milk/">made headlines</a> for a protest involving Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell — who has often spoken up on climate-related issues. The &#8220;L.A. Confidential&#8221; actor superglued himself to a New York City Starbucks counter on Tuesday morning, claiming that it was discriminatory and bad for the environment for the company to charge extra for plant-based milk options.
&#8220;Save the planet, save the cows. Stop the vegan upcharge now!&#8221; Cromwell and others chanted after the actor spoke about the fact that Starbucks was charging extra for plant-based milks.
Cromwell argued that the surcharge was discriminatory because lactose intolerance is more prevalent in minority communities than it is among white Americans. He also argued that for people who chose vegan options because they believed the dairy industry was cruel to animals, Starbucks was effectively charging people more for making moral choices.
&#8220;This is how you get an animal rights message to STICK!&#8221; PETA tweeted. &#8220;James Cromwell joined PETA&#8217;s campaign and glued himself to a @Starbucks counter to call on the company to stop charging extra for animal and earth-friendly vegan milks!&#8221;
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This is how you get an animal rights message to STICK!
James Cromwell joined PETA’s campaign and glued himself to a <a href="https://twitter.com/Starbucks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Starbucks</a> counter to call on the company to stop charging extra for animal and earth-friendly vegan milks! <a href="https://t.co/N9aitSQHSm">pic.twitter.com/N9aitSQHSm</a>
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The organization later bragged in a follow-up tweet, &#8220;James Cromwell single-handedly SHUT DOWN a #NYC @Starbucks during rush hour. Watch him confront shoppers and face down the police.&#8221;
Cromwell remained glued to the counter for around 30 minutes.
&#8220;I keep coming back to actor James Cromwell, age 82 going on FOUR, gluing his hand to a counter at Starbucks over plant milk,&#8221; Newsbusters Executive Editor Tim Graham, <a href="https://twitter.com/TimJGraham/status/1524178406547542016">commented</a>. &#8220;My answer? Leave him there. For days. That punishment might work for a pre-schooler. It should work for this guy. And every other PETA brat.&#8221;
&#8220;All this super-gluing makes me want to organize a Big Mac Eating Sit-In at PETA headquarters,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/TimJGraham/status/1524178978361298946">added</a>.

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Former President Barack Obama&#8217;s 60th birthday party in Martha&#8217;s Vineyard on Saturday will reportedly feature a meatless menu.
The party is set to deliver coveted endorsements to plant-based food brands like Impossible Foods Inc. and Eat Just Inc., <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-05/obama-s-meatless-birthday-menu-to-feature-impossible-eat-just">reported</a> Bloomberg News, which viewed menu plans for the celebration.
The menu was curated by musician Questlove, who promotes and invests in meat-free foods.
The menu will offer dishes such as Spam Musubi, which includes faux-beef and faux-pork from Impossible Foods as well as plant-based eggs from Eat Just. Another meatless option is Questlove’s Cheesesteak Eggrolls, which include Impossible “beef” and “cheese sauce” from Perfect Day Inc., a food technology startup in Berkeley, California, that develops ways to make dairy proteins without using animals.
It is unclear whether a separate menu featuring meat products will be offered.
Obama&#8217;s birthday affair was originally planned for nearly 700 guests but was scaled back to include only close friends and family after criticism that it could potentially spread the delta variant of the coronavirus.
“Democrats are imposing unscientific mask mandates while contemplating more lockdowns. Meanwhile, President Obama is hosting over 500 elites at his Marthas Vineyard mansion. If you or I did that it would be called a super-spreader event by the Democrats,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), chair of the House Republican Conference, <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/02/obama-holding-huge-60th-birthday-bash-despite-covid-warnings/">said</a>.
“Typical liberal ‘do as I say, not as I do’. This is what socialism looks like,” Stefanik added.
George Clooney, Steven Spielberg, and Oprah Winfrey were <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/08/02/obama-holding-huge-60th-birthday-bash-despite-covid-warnings/">reportedly</a> on the original star-studded guest list, along with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/us/politics/obama-cancels-60th-birthday-party.html">hundreds</a> of former Obama administration officials and Democratic donors. Some guests were said to be renting houses in Martha&#8217;s Vineyard for the event.
“Due to the new spread of the Delta variant over the past week, the President and Mrs. Obama have decided to significantly scale back the event to include only family and close friends,” a spokeswoman for Obama <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/us/politics/obama-cancels-60th-birthday-party.html">said</a> in a statement Wednesday morning. “He’s appreciative of others sending their birthday wishes from afar and looks forward to seeing people soon.”
The party will be held on the Obamas&#8217; Martha’s Vineyard property, which the former president and his wife, former first lady Michelle Obama, bought in 2019 for $11.75 million.
On Monday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked whether Obama was “setting the wrong example about how serious COVID-19 is by hosting a big birthday party with hundreds of people.”
“I would note first that former President Obama has been a huge advocate of individuals getting vaccinated,” Psaki responded. “This event, according to all the public reporting, is outdoors and in a moderate zone. But in addition, there is testing requirements and other steps they are taking. which I’m sure they can outline for you in more detail.”
The reporter pressed Psaki on whether others should think it is acceptable for them to host a party with several hundred people too.
“Well, we certainly advise everyone to follow public health guidelines, which I know the former president, who is a huge advocate of getting vaccinated, of following the guidance of public health experts, would certainly advocate for himself as well,” the press secretary answered.
Last year&#8217;s Golden Globes offered a vegan menu, and the 2021 Met Gala is <a href="https://www.bonappetit.com/story/met-gala-chefs-2021">set to offer</a> a plant-based menu as well.

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Following his win at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday night, the Oscar-nominated Joaquin Phoenix attended a &#8220;pig vigil&#8221; outside a Downtown Los Angeles slaughterhouse.
Joining alongside several activists, the acclaimed actor told Jane Unchained News that he regularly comes to these &#8220;pig vigils&#8221; due to the &#8220;torture and murder&#8221; of animals he has seen in the meat and dairy industry.
“Most people don’t really know of the torture and murder in the meat and dairy industry,” <a href="https://www.facebook.com/JaneVelezMitchell/videos/192314958577321/UzpfSTc4NzY2MDE1ODA0MjQ3NToxNTk2NTM0MDIwNDg4NDE0/">Phoenix said</a>. “I’ve seen it for what it is, so I have to be here.”
Phoenix went on to lament that people have been brainwashed to believe animals live happy lives on farms, arguing that those who know the truth have an obligation to fight back.
“We have moral obligations to talk about it and expose it for what it really is,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We are so indoctrinated with these happy images of animals on farms, on the covers of meat containers, at restaurants and it’s a lie. I think people need to know the truth and we have an obligation to do that. Those of us that have seen it for what it really is, we have an obligation to expose it, so I have to be here.”
Despite the event&#8217;s somberness, Phoenix ultimately expressed hope and optimism.
“There is a change that is happening and it’s now just becoming undeniable. Slowly but surely we’re getting there,&#8221; he said. &#8220;As heartbreaking as it is when we’re here giving water to the pigs I have a certain optimism in our community and how committed everyone is. People come down here week after week after week so I had to come here tonight and support and it’s a little antidote to what I was just given, so I’m blessed to be here.”
Joaquin Phoenix has been an outspoken vegan and animal rights activist for many years. Speaking with <a href="https://collider.com/joaquin-phoenix-interview-you-were-never-really-here/#directing">Collider</a> in 2018, the &#8220;Joker&#8221; star said his passion for the cause came after seeing a fish killed on a boat as a kid.
&#8220;Really it was seeing these fish being killed when I was on a boat as a kid,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I guess to stun them, they were throwing them against the side of the boat. I just had a profound strong reaction. It felt like a real injustice. It wasn’t just me, it was my siblings, all of my siblings, except for the youngest, Summer, she wasn’t born. My mom was pregnant with her. I don’t know how to explain it. I think it made me distrustful, and angry, and frightened of humans, humanity. I just thought it was such a gross abuse of power in a way. I think that during that moment we knew that we were not going to eat meat anymore. We said to our parents, &#8216;Why didn’t you tell us?&#8217; It’s amazing. I remember my mom’s face, I remember her crying. She didn’t know how to answer. It became very obvious we weren’t going to eat meat anymore.&#8221;
While accepting the award for Best Actor at the Golden Globes, Phoenix also called out Hollywood for not practicing what they preach regarding climate change.
&#8220;It&#8217;s really nice that so many people have sent their well wishes to Australia but we have to do more than that,&#8221; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/golden-globes-joker-star-joaquin-phoenix-makes-climate-change-plea-best-actor-speech-1266680">Phoenix said</a>. &#8220;Hopefully, we can be unified and actually make some changes. It&#8217;s great to vote, but sometimes we have to take that responsibility on ourselves and make changes and sacrifices in our own lives. We don&#8217;t have to take private jets to Palm Springs for the awards.&#8221;

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Actress Megan Fox says she and her husband send their three young boys to &#8220;an organic, sustainable, vegan school&#8221; and teach Journey, three, Bodhi, five, and Noah, seven, that plants have &#8220;feelings, thoughts and emotions.&#8221;
“We send them to an organic, sustainable, vegan school where they’re seed-to-table, they plant their own food,&#8221; the &#8220;Transformers&#8221; star told <a href="https://people.com/parents/megan-fox-teaching-sons-to-be-themselves-brian-austin-green/">People magazine</a> during a charity outing with her husband on Monday. &#8220;They grow it, they harvest it and they take it to local restaurants to sell it, so they understand how all of that works.”
“I’m very specific <a href="https://people.com/tag/animal-rescue/">about never harming animals</a>,” continued Fox. “We don’t step on ants; we don’t do things like that. We don’t rip flowers out of the ground, because we think they’re beautiful. I teach them that plants are sentient beings — they have feelings, thoughts and emotions — so that’s what we’re doing.”
Fox recalled an incident where one of her sons accidentally stepped on a bug and the family held a funeral for it.
“My son accidentally stepped on a roly-poly once and he was devastated, and we had a full funeral for it,” the actress said. “We did a ceremony, we buried it, we lit sage, we released him back. So they’re very involved.”
Brian Austin Green, actor and husband to Fox, told People that he and Fox encourage their boys to be &#8220;whoever they are.&#8221;
“We don’t encourage them to be themselves, we just encourage whoever they are,” Green said. “I know for me, [the more time passes,] the more I really realize and am okay with the fact that they are people.”
Fox added on to the parenting advice: &#8220;It’s about releasing control, right? That’s all it is. It’s [about] allowing them to be who they are and relinquishing control, because they were born to be who they are, and it’s my job to support that process, not to get involved and micromanage and mold them into what I think they should be,&#8221; she said.
“It’s [about] being of that mindset of realizing that they come as the teachers to us,” Fox added. “We’re here to keep them alive, but we’re learning all the lessons from them.”
Fox made parenting headlines in September when she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megan-fox-defends-letting-her-6-year-old-son-wear-paul-bois">defended</a> her choice to allow then-six-year-old Noah, a boy, to wear dresses to school.
“Sometimes, he’ll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses, sometimes,” the 33-year-old said, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/megan-fox-son-laughed-wearing-dresses">Fox News</a>. “And I send him to a really liberal, hippy school, but even there — here in California — he still has little boys going, ‘Boys don’t wear dresses,’ or ‘Boys don’t wear pink.&#8217; &#8230; So we’re going through that now, where I’m trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says.&#8221;
“He had stopped wearing dresses for a while,&#8221; continued Fox. &#8220;He just wore one two days ago to school, and he came home and I was like, ‘How was it? Did any of the friends at school have anything to say?&#8217; And he was like, ‘Well, all the boys laughed when I came in, but I don’t care, I love dresses too much.&#8217;”
“He designs, he draws outfits. He’s very talented,” the actress said. “But he’s still six so, when I do fittings, like, I did one recently and I had this really beautiful yellow dress on, and he kept draping it in a way where he’s like, ‘If we do it like this, it looks like a diaper! I was like, ‘That’s not what we’re going for this time, but maybe next time!&#8217;”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megan-fox-defends-letting-her-6-year-old-son-wear-paul-bois">Megan Fox Defends Letting Her 6-Year-Old Son Wear Dresses To School</a>
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A vegan who says she was served a pork sausage roll that she thought was meat-free claims she has been “traumatized for life.”
Sharleen Ndungu, 20, said she began having heart palpitations immediately after being informed that the roll contained meat. And then, she said, she began to cry.
&#8220;I haven’t had meat in two years,&#8221; Ndungu said, according to <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/26/vegan-traumatised-life-served-pork-sausage-roll-greggs-10811386/">Metro UK.</a> &#8220;My belly started hurting and my heart started going crazy. I was panicking because that only happens when I consume meat — this doesn’t happen when I have other food. I’m traumatized for life now — I’m never going to Greggs again.&#8221;
The incident occurred after Ndungu went to get something to eat at Greggs bakery in Canterbury, Kent in England.
After she determined that there was pork in the sausage, Ndungu returned to the store, where the manager offered her a $3 refund.
Unsatisfied, Ndungu then called the bakery’s customer service hotline, which offered a $36 voucher.
That still wasn&#8217;t enough for Ndungu. She wanted an apology.
&#8220;I was asking for a public apology to make people aware that they should watch out for things like this,” she said. “People can be allergic to pork and potentially die from such a stupid mistake. It’s my choice not to consume meat because it causes cancer. That choice has been taken away from me.”
Ndungu is a YouTuber and posted three videos about her trauma to social media.
“My body is poisoned for life now, you know,” she said in one of the videos, according to <a href="https://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/vegan-youtubers-video-rant-after-3360491">KentLive.com</a>.
&#8220;If I was allergic to pork or any of the ingredients that were inside that dirty sausage, I literally could have died,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Some people, namely meat eaters, might think I&#8217;m over exaggerating but I could have died.&#8221;
A spokesman for Greggs told <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/26/vegan-traumatised-life-served-pork-sausage-roll-greggs-10811386/">Metro UK</a>: “We have apologized to the customer for this incident. We’ve taken great care to try and prevent this from happening and are investigating to ensure this situation can be avoided in the future.”
Contrary to Ndungu&#8217;s claim, new research released this week says red and processed meat probably are not harmful to our health, despite the fact that the World Health Organization has classified meats as cancer-causing.
A 14-member international team led by Bradley Johnston, a professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, said people shouldn&#8217;t stop eating meat for health reasons. &#8220;Based on the research, we cannot say with any certainty that eating red or processed meat causes cancer, diabetes or heart disease,” he said.
According to the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49877237">BBC</a>, the findings, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, said that &#8220;if 1,000 people cut out three portions of red or processed meat every week for a lifetime, there would be seven fewer deaths from cancer.&#8221; If they cut out meat for 11 years, &#8220;there would be four fewer deaths from heart disease.&#8221;
Johnston defended the conclusions of his study. &#8220;This is not &#8216;just another study&#8217; on red and processed meat,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but a series of five high-quality systematic reviews to inform dietary recommendations.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re not saying there is no risk, we&#8217;re saying there is only low-certainty evidence of a very small reduction of cancer and other adverse health consequences of reducing red meat consumption,&#8221; he said.
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The media may have fallen in love with plant-based fake meat like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods (who produce the Beyond Burger and Impossible Burger, respectively), but one high-profile super vegan doesn&#8217;t think the &#8220;meat&#8221; is good for anyone&#8217;s health.
John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/08/21/whole-foods-ceo-john-mackey-plant-based-meat-not-good-for-your-health.html">recently told</a> CNBC that while the plant-based meat is better for the environment, and is more ethical than eating animals, it is made from processed ingredients that aren&#8217;t healthier than actual meat.
&#8220;The [brands] who are capturing the imagination of people — and I&#8217;m not going to name these brands because I&#8217;m afraid I will be associated with the critique of it,&#8221; Mackey, who has been a vegan for more than 20 years, told the outlet, &#8220;but some of these that are extremely popular now that are taking the world by storm, if you look at the ingredients, they are super, highly processed foods.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think eating highly processed foods is healthy. I think people thrive on eating whole foods,&#8221; he added. &#8220;As for health, I will not endorse that, and that is about as big of criticism that I will do in public.&#8221;
CNBC listed the ingredients for Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods burgers:
<blockquote>According to Beyond Meat&#8217;s <a href="https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/the-beyond-burger/">website</a>, ingredients for its plant-based patties include water, pea protein isolate, expeller-pressed canola oil, refined coconut oil, rice protein and other natural flavors, including apple extract and beet juice extract (for color). Ingredients for Impossible Foods burger include water, soy protein concentrate, coconut oil, sunflower oil, potato protein, soy leghemoglobin (a group of protein found in animals and plants) and other natural flavors, according to its <a href="https://faq.impossiblefoods.com/hc/en-us/articles/360018937494-What-are-the-ingredients-">website.</a></blockquote>
CNBC also spoke to registered dietitian Alissa Rumsey, who told the outlet that the plant-based burgers &#8220;are not necessarily healthier than beef burgers.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re totally fine to eat, but there&#8217;s no need to replace your beef burger if you don&#8217;t enjoy these,&#8221; she added.
Mackey said that even if plant-based meat isn&#8217;t necessarily healthier than actual meat, it could serve as a &#8220;transition food&#8221; to move people away from meat.
&#8220;A lot of people say &#8230; that [plant-based] meat is a transition food, meaning it&#8217;s a way for [people] to begin to reeducate [their] palates,&#8221; he told CNBC.
He added that Americans need to readjust their palates in order to get away from eating meat, which takes time.
&#8220;So the reason why these plant-based meats have taken the world by storm is that they taste very similar to regular meats, whereas if you get a [healthy] black bean burger with flax seeds and sweet potatoes in it, that&#8217;s going to taste great to me,&#8221; but not to most other people, he said.
He said people can retrain their taste buds by continuously eating things they don&#8217;t typically like, and said he now loves fruits and vegetables because he trained himself to love them.

World Health Care Congress

Whole Foods CEO Says Plant-Based Fake Meat Is Bad For Your Health (But Good For Environment)

Health

The journal of one New York university’s Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies program has published a paper that insists that milking cows is comparable to &#8220;sexual abuse,&#8221; &#8220;emotional trauma related to pregnancy,&#8221; and &#8220;nonconsensual hormone treatments,&#8221; according to Celine Ryan, writing for <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13575">Campus Reform</a>.
The paper, &#8220;<a href="https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1088&amp;context=dissentingvoices">Readying the Rape Rack: Feminism and the Exploitation of Non-Human Reproductive Systems</a>,&#8221; was included in Dissenting Voices, published and edited by the Women&#8217;s and Gender Studies program at the College at Brockport State University of New York.
Ryan notes that the author, an intern for Brockport&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Studies Department, asserts that she must discuss the &#8220;under-researched&#8221; &#8220;feminist aspects of animal agriculture,&#8221; adding, &#8220;the same way women’s health has been at stake for years, a dairy cow&#8217;s reproductive system has been poked and prodded.&#8221;
The author writes, &#8220;Throughout our lives, we are offered an idealized image of dairy cows where these animals graze on beautiful pastures, have room to sow and play, and are comforted in spacious areas in which to sleep. We are presented with images of a life well lived, but when it comes to the deaths of those same animals, the picture perfect story comes to a grim reality.&#8221;
The paper continues, &#8220;The outdated stereotype about women being caretakers and most importantly child bearers remains consistent in the dairy industry, especially when we take into account the means through which these animals are exploited. A few brief examples include rape or sexual assault, nonconsensual hormone treatments, and emotional trauma related to pregnancy. Dairy cows are forcibly impregnated, or raped, in order to constantly produce milk for humans to consume.&#8221;
More: &#8220;The dairy industry is a host for sexbased discrimination. It is a site where sexual assault and objectification based on biological makeup are highly prevalent but ignored as we choose to neglect non-humans with whom we share a planet.&#8221;
The author concludes, &#8220;While we fight against the sexual abuse of women, why are we still allowing the same treatment to be thrust upon other living bodies when there are other, more sustainable ways to live that do not involve harming millions of female bodies? With simple lifestyle changes that promote reproductive justice towards animals available to many, why are we picking and choosing which pots of capitalism, sexism, and patriarchy to stir, when we could dismantle it all?&#8221;
In response to Milk Life campaigns that were run since the 2016 Olympics featuring athletes from Team USA, an <a href="https://www.dairyherd.com/article/anti-dairy-commercial-runs-during-closing-ceremony-olympics">anti-dairy commercial</a> was aired during the closing ceremonies of the 2018 South Korea Olympics. Switch 4 Good made the commercial, which showed various former Olympic athletes asserting that they had decided to renounce eating dairy products, with comments such as &#8220;I got stronger,&#8221; &#8220;to take back my life&#8221; or &#8220;run faster.&#8221; Six athletes who participated were Kendrick Farris, USA, weightlifter; Rebecca Soni, USA, six time medalist in swimming; Malachi Davis, Great Britain, track and field sprinter; Kara Lang, Canada, soccer; Dotsie Bausch, USA, silver medalist in pursuit cycling; and Seba Johnson, Virgin Islands, alpine skier.
The ad concluded with athletes saying &#8220;they don&#8217;t drink cow&#8217;s milk&#8221; and &#8220;they are proud to be dairy free.&#8221;
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Woman Milking Cow

Report: NY University Gender Studies Department Publishes Paper Saying Milking Cows Is Like Sexual Abuse

Feminism

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday that NYC&#8217;s public schools will be going vegetarian one day per week in order to save the Earth.
<a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Meatless-Mondays-Program-Expands-NYC-Public-Schools-Food-Health-Student-Menu-506989581.html">Local New York media</a> reports that the &#8220;Meatless Mondays&#8221; pilot program, which brought vegetarian meals to around 15 Brooklyn schools, will expand city-wide for the 2019-2020 school year, and &#8220;all schools will serve vegetarian menus on Mondays&#8221; to the city&#8217;s 1.1 million students.
De Blasio told a press conference Monday that the change will help improve the health of New York&#8217;s students, and will hopefully have an impact on climate change.
&#8220;Cutting back on meat a little will improve New Yorkers&#8217; health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions,&#8221; Mayor Bill de Blasio said. &#8220;We&#8217;re expanding Meatless Mondays to all public schools to keep our lunch and planet green for generations to come.&#8221;
&#8220;Meatless Monday&#8221; options <a href="http://www.schoolfoodnyc.org/menusandrecipes/menus.htm">will include</a> things like &#8220;whole grain rotini pasta with herbed marinara sauce,&#8221; and the likely less popular, &#8220;kid friendly kale salad.&#8221;
The program, at least, is &#8220;cost neutral,&#8221; since the city already spends money on feeding students; in this case, they&#8217;re simply adjusting the menu to accommodate one vegetarian meal per week. Like other cities, New York is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and a costly experiment in vegetarianism might just be what sends the city &#8212; and the city&#8217;s residents &#8212; over the edge.
Cows have been &#8220;public enemy number one&#8221; of the environmentalism movement since Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced their &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; last month. According to a &#8220;fact sheet&#8221; released with the Green New Deal and posted on Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s website, the ultimate aim of the GND will be to transition Americans to a fully vegetarian diet in the name of halting apocalyptic climate change. The document, which has now been scrubbed from the web, even suggested a permanent solution to methan-producing cattle.
Environmental activists have, in recent years, pushed the idea that going vegetarian is the only way to effectively &#8220;save the planet,&#8221; and <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/12/should-meat-cost-more-than-gold/548264/">according to The Atlantic</a>, several legislators have even proposed taxing meat as if it were a &#8220;vice&#8221; item, like cigarettes or alcohol.
The theory behind it is that cows produce methane, which has an outsized impact on climate change, as it&#8217;s even more dangerous, as an emission, than carbon dioxide. In developing countries, where &#8220;unsustainable&#8221; agricultural practices are common, livestock rearing leads to everything from deforestation to diesel fuel pollution.
<a href="http://theconversation.com/yes-eating-meat-affects-the-environment-but-cows-are-not-killing-the-climate-94968">Recent studies, howeve</a>r, have demonstrated that while eating meat does have an environmental impact, cows aren&#8217;t the Four Horsement of the climate change apocalypse, and while much of the developed world may be able to cut back on meat consumption, in most places in the world where populations aren&#8217;t swimming in excess food, cattle, pigs, goats, and chickens provide much-needed sources of protien.
&#8220;Many people continue to think avoiding meat as infrequently as once a week will make a significant difference to the climate,&#8221; one environmental scientist <a href="http://theconversation.com/yes-eating-meat-affects-the-environment-but-cows-are-not-killing-the-climate-94968">wrote for The Conversation</a>. &#8220;But according to one recent study, even if Americans eliminated all animal protein from their diets, they would reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by only 2.6 percent. According to our research at the University of California, Davis, if the practice of Meatless Monday were to be adopted by all Americans, we&#8217;d see a reduction of only 0.5 percent.&#8221;
We&#8217;re already making better progress than that by improving our agricultural practices. According to the same study, simple technological advancements in the practice of farming have reduced cow-based greenhouse emissions by &#8220;11.3 percent since 1961.&#8221;
But, if skipping meat one day per week makes Bill de Blasio feel accomplished, it&#8217;s hard to argue. Because he wouldn&#8217;t accept an alternate conclusion anyway.

NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Announces ‘Meatless Mondays’ In Public Schools To ‘Save The Earth’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Bill de Blasio

Climate Change

Environmentalism

New York City

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is a vegan. In an interview with VegNews, Booker <a href="https://vegnews.com/2019/2/cory-booker-on-animal-rights-veganism-and-how-to-change-the-world">explained</a> how his vegan &#8220;journey&#8221; began in 1992 and culminated with his &#8220;last non-vegan meal&#8221; on Election Day 2014. It started, in fact, with Gandhi:
<blockquote>
I was just coming off from playing varsity football for Stanford, about to start to play varsity basketball for Oxford, and I really believed what Gandhi titled his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth. So, I tried to experiment with his vegetarian diet and see how I felt. And my body just took off; it was like somebody lifted off a twenty-pound weighted vest. My sleep patterns got better, I felt more energy, better recovery after workouts.
</blockquote>
But as The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/cory-booker-this-planet-simply-cant-sustain-people-eating-meat/">highlights</a>, the real gem from Booker&#8217;s interview with VegNews is his attestment that Earth &#8220;simply can&#8217;t sustain&#8221; people eating and enjoying meat:
<blockquote>
While claiming he does not want to lecture Americans on their diets, Booker says Americans need to be nudged into fake cheese because the planet cannot sustain the &#8220;environmental impact&#8221; of the food industry.
&#8220;You see the planet earth moving towards what is the Standard American Diet,&#8221; Booker said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve seen this massive increase in consumption of meat produced by the industrial animal agriculture industry.&#8221;
&#8220;The tragic reality is this planet simply can&#8217;t sustain billions of people consuming industrially produced animal agriculture because of environmental impact,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just not possible.&#8221;
Booker says the &#8220;devastating impact&#8221; of greenhouse gases produced by the meat industry is &#8220;just not practical.&#8221;
&#8220;The numbers just don&#8217;t add up,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will destroy our planet unless we start figuring out a better way forward when it comes to our climate change and our environment.&#8221;
</blockquote>
The allegation that planet Earth &#8220;simply can&#8217;t sustain&#8221; people eating and enjoying would surely come as news to planet Earth itself, considering that carnivorous animals have roamed the Earth for hundreds of millions of years. Furthermore, as Erick Erickson <a href="https://theresurgent.com/2019/02/12/cory-booker-wants-government-to-drastically-increase-the-cost-of-meat-to-encourage-veganism/">notes</a>, despite Booker&#8217;s anti-meat stance, he concedes in the same VegNews interview that, &#8220;[t]his doesn&#8217;t mean, in any way, getting rid of animal farming.&#8221; Go figure.
Booker&#8217;s vegan campaign dovetails with the revanchist environmentalism currently on display from the activist base of the Democratic Party &#8212; and, specifically, the environmentalism in the form of the recently unveiled so-called &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and other far-Left Democratic lawmakers. As Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43194/aocs-green-new-deal-proposal-one-stupidest-ben-shapiro">noted</a>, in excoriating the &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; as &#8220;one of the stupidest documents ever written,&#8221; the manifesto courageusly took direct aim at the great national scourge of &#8230; flatulent bovines:
<blockquote>
The proposal calls for the United States to be free of carbon emissions within 10 years without the use of nuclear power. It calls for every building in the United States to be replaced or retrofitted in green fashion. It calls for universal healthcare, free college education, the replacement of airplanes with high-speed trains, charging stations &#8220;everywhere&#8221; (this is the sort of exactness the proposal contains), replacement of &#8220;every combustion-engine vehicle,&#8221; government-provided jobs, family and medical leave, vacations, retirement security, and the abolition of &#8220;farting cows.&#8221; It also calls for total &#8220;economic security&#8221; for anyone &#8220;unable or unwilling to work.&#8221;
</blockquote>
As The Daily Wire has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42939/watch-cory-booker-announces-his-presidential-run-james-barrett">reported</a>, Booker is a confirmed 2020 presidential candidate for the Democrats.

Cory Booker Claims Earth ‘Can’t Sustain’ People Eating Meat

2020 Election

Cory Booker

Democratic Party

Vegans are rather miffed that they became the butt of a Super Bowl joke Sunday night, and they&#8217;re taking it out on Korean carmaker, Hyundai.
Hyundai&#8217;s Super Bowl commercial, which aired in the first half of the game, features &#8220;elevator operator&#8221; Jason Bateman, who directs his passengers through a sort-of &#8220;purgatory:&#8221; they go up in the elevator to life&#8217;s more pleasurable experiences, and down to those experiences people might want to avoid, like jury duty, or a &#8220;vegan dinner party.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2019/02/04/vegans-are-beefing-with-hyundai-over-super-bowl-ad-that-made-fun-vegan-dinner-parties/?utm_term=.009dfc3ba8ee">The Washington Post reports</a>:
<blockquote>
&#8220;Vegan dinner party,&#8221; Bateman says as the doors ding open. &#8220;Is that even a thing?&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re having beetloaf &#8212; Sergio&#8217;s specialty,&#8221; says the smiling host as she approaches her guests while extending a purple gelatinous concoction.
Sergio takes a bow while one of the dinner guests retches.
</blockquote>
The passengers are then &#8220;rescued&#8221; and whisked off to &#8220;heaven&#8221; &#8212; the process of buying and owning a Hyundai vehicle.
Vegans, known for their thick skin and ability to self-deprecate, were immediately incensed that a vegan dinner party was portrayed as an option for those forced to atone for their sins after death. They would prefer, they told The Washington Post, to have been on the &#8220;up&#8221; side of the elevator&#8217;s journey.
&#8220;The trend of 2019 is taking the elevator UP to vegan dinner parties (and an Earth, heart, &amp; animal-friendly lifestyle),&#8221; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals &#8212; also not a particularly humorous group &#8212; tweeted. &#8220;Instead of buying a car from people with outdated ideas, we suggest a vegan Smart car by Mercedes. great mileage &amp; acceleration, turns on a dime.&#8221;
PETA was also incensed, separately, at Big Boi of Outkast, who wore a giant fur coat during his halftime show performance. They asked Big Boi for a generous donation to animal charities and to swear off fur altogether. Big Boi did not respond.
Vegans involved in the backlash seemed particularly angry that Hyundai suggested vegan food is somehow unappetizing, and that a vegan dinner party would involve a gelatinous mass of beet-flavored goo in place of a true meat-substitute loaf. So in response, vegans Tweeted photos of their meat- and dairy-free Super Bowl spreads, not all of which were more appetizing than &#8220;beet-loaf.&#8221;
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Yep, <a href="https://twitter.com/Hyundai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Hyundai</a>, no one likes vegans or vegan food. Way to show you&#8217;re tuned out of the future and don&#8217;t care about the environment or animals or the health of your customers&#8211;or the fact that it&#8217;s possible to do better.
Guess I&#8217;ll go eat my grass now. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SuperBowl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SuperBowl</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/punchdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#punchdown</a> <a href="https://t.co/KENOdu1x6H">https://t.co/KENOdu1x6H</a>
&#8212; Molly Elwood (@mollyelwood) <a href="https://twitter.com/mollyelwood/status/1092209254381932544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
Look, I can take a joke. Honestly. But <a href="https://twitter.com/Hyundai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Hyundai</a> trying to drag vegans for eating gross food? 1993 called and it wants its joke back. Veganism has consistently been a global top food trend the last three years running. Hope your cars are better than your marketing department.
&#8212; Ari Solomon (@VeganAri) <a href="https://twitter.com/VeganAri/status/1092230714806853632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
The response became so prickly that Hyundai was eventually forced to apologize.
&#8220;We actually love vegan food and are glad it&#8217;s going more mainstream,&#8221; Hyundai said in a statement to its vegan detractors.
&#8220;We are responding in social media that we totally respect veganism and are happy that it has become mainstream,&#8221; a Hyundai spokesperson also told The Washington Post. &#8220;We also hope that vegans have a sense of humor just like the dentists, parents, judges, flight attendants, doctors and even car dealers, the others stops represented on &#8216;The Elevator.&#8217; &#8221;
They even offered up their recipe for the now infamous &#8220;beet loaf,&#8221; in the hopes that some vegans might have suggestions on how to improve their dinner party fare.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">
Awesome! If you go to one, here&#8217;s a recipe you can try. Glad you loved your Santa Fe. We think you will love the Palisade, too. <a href="https://t.co/Xw2X8rKmnR">https://t.co/Xw2X8rKmnR</a> <a href="https://t.co/3yx34QE7bB">pic.twitter.com/3yx34QE7bB</a>
&#8212; Hyundai USA (@Hyundai) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hyundai/status/1092204892020662272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
Other than with vegans, the ad reportedly played well. It was judged the fourth best ad of the night by independent auditors.

Vegans Are Angry That Hyundai Made Fun Of ‘Beet Loaf’ During The Super Bowl

Organic Food

Super Bowl

The common phrase &#8220;bringing home the bacon&#8221; may now be offensive to some. If you thought women (because it is about providing for a household and because women seem to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38969/women-now-claim-popular-disney-song-promotes-ashe-schow">offended by everything</a> these days) you&#8217;d be wrong.
According to the Independent, phrases like &#8220;bringing home the bacon&#8221; and &#8220;putting all your eggs in one basket&#8221; aren&#8217;t merely &#8220;harmless quirks of the English language,&#8221; but actually phrases that &#8220;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bringing-home-bacon-vegan-offensive-idom-shareena-hamzah-phrases-animals-a8664796.html?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1543854276">could be offending vegans and vegetarians</a>.&#8221;
The poor, malnourished souls.
The Independent article is <a href="https://theconversation.com/how-the-rise-of-veganism-may-tenderise-fictional-language-106576">based off another article</a> from a researcher who wrote in the Conversation that meat is not just a &#8220;form of sustenance,&#8221; but &#8220;a source of societal power.&#8221; Throughout history, Shareena Z. Hamzah wrote, meat was something only the wealthy could afford, while peasants had to subsist on a &#8220;mostly vegetarian diet.&#8221;
After some literary references, Hamzah then lists all the bad things meat has wrought: Climate change, &#8220;environmental degradation,&#8221; studies noting some &#8220;negative effects of meat-eating on the human body,&#8221; and concerns about animal welfare. She wrote:
<blockquote>
The increased awareness of vegan issues will filter through our consciousness to produce new modes of expression &#8211; after all, there&#8217;s more than one way to peel a potato. At the same time, metaphors involving meat could gain an increased intensity if the killing of animals for food becomes less socially acceptable. The image of &#8220;killing two birds with one stone&#8221; is, if anything, made more powerful by the animal-friendly alternative of &#8220;<a href="https://www.peta.org/teachkind/lesson-plans-activities/animal-friendly-idioms/">feeding two birds with one scone</a>.&#8221; If veganism forces us to confront the realities of food&#8217;s origins, then this increased awareness will undoubtedly be reflected in our language and our literature.
</blockquote>
Hamzah points to a survey from CompareTheMarket.com, which claims there are 3.5 million vegans in the United Kingdom, a sharp uptick from 2016, when a survey published by The Vegan Society and Vegan Life magazine found just 540,000 vegans living in Britain. It&#8217;s difficult to say there was such a sharp increase in just two years, considering the different surveys and potential sample sizes.
This increase, which Hamzah accepts without question, will lead people to stop using meat-based idioms like &#8220;bringing home the bacon.&#8221;
It&#8217;s doubtful, since idioms persist, people hate their speech being censored by the easily offended, and &#8220;bringing home the bacon&#8221; is about money, not delicious salt-cured pork belly.
Back at the Independent, Olivia Petter notes that the aggressively unpopular &#8220;animal rights&#8221; group PETA has been trying to get meat-based idioms banned from classrooms.
&#8220;While these phrases may seem harmless, they carry meaning and can send mixed signals to students about the relationship between humans and animals and can normalize abuse,&#8221; the organization <a href="https://www.peta.org/teachkind/lesson-plans-activities/animal-friendly-idioms/">wrote on its website</a>. &#8220;Teaching students to use animal-friendly language can cultivate positive relationships between all beings and help end the epidemic of youth violence toward animals.&#8221;
These people truly think others are so dumb and evil as to hear a phrase like &#8220;killing two birds with one stone&#8221; and actually take it as a challenge.
PETA suggests saying &#8220;bringing home the bagels,&#8221; but what happens when that is deemed racist (since the food originated in Jewish communities) or sexist (please don&#8217;t make me explain why) or offensive to people on a no-carb diet?

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